November 5, 2017, 6:55 am
Blackmagic Design has updated their Video Assist 4K LCD monitor/recorder. This time they have improved the color reading Vectorscope by adding the much needed 2x and 4x zoom capability within the scope. Blackmagic also updated general performance and stability to both the Video Assist and the Video Assist 4K as well. Now, the Vectorscope along with
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May 23, 2019, 8:20 am
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is on Amazon Prime Video and is in its second season. Last season, editor Kate Sanford, ACE, won the ACE Eddie for Best Edited Comedy Series for Non-Commercial Television for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Episode: “Simone.” Sanford has won previous ACE Eddies for Treme and The Wire. Tim Streeto, ACE is...
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May 22, 2019, 4:55 am
Winner of a VR Award at the Venice International Film Festival in 2018, and soon available on Steam, The Isle of the Dead, from French author Benjamin Nuel, is another step in the right direction for VR. Written by Benjamin Nuel and Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat, produced by Oriane Hurard, a coproduction of the French cinematography company...
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May 21, 2019, 10:30 am
The interesting, cross-platform app called Premiere Rush (which I have covered extensively in prior articles and an interview with Cielo de la Paz of The Storyographist), is finally available for Android too. Up until now, it has been available for macOS, iOS and Windows. At a private online briefing last week for journalists, Adobe responded...
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May 21, 2019, 6:08 am
Keylight is, in general, the best chromakey plugin that comes with After Effects. Although there are other 3rdparty plugins available for sale, Keylight can produce exceptional results and has won various technical awards. Unless you’ve invested in a 3rdparty keyer, if you’re working with bluescreen or greenscreen footage in After Effects, Keylight should always be your...
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May 21, 2019, 6:06 am
3D camera tracking has become an essential tool for most filmmakers—even if just for matchmoving titles to scene geography. But until fairly recently, the ability to recreate your scene inside a computer’s 3D space required expensive on-set Lidar survey, the result of which never seemed to quite line up with the 3D camera track. There...
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May 20, 2019, 2:08 pm
When Adobe published, recently, a list of software that could not be used any longer, it mixed CC apps with CS apps as Premiere Pro 6. I finally got a reply from Adobe about what is “legal” to use, now. The letter sent recently by Adobe to some of its clients has not been very...
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May 20, 2019, 2:07 pm
Smart Blur – along with Bilateral Blur, which we discussed back in January – was originally created to help blur out flaws in an image (such as dust, grain, skin flaws, etc.) while maintaining detail in transitions such as the outline of the image or features in it. It’s a powerful tool that includes the ability...
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May 20, 2019, 2:06 pm
We stopped by the booths. We saw the gear. We talked to as many industry manufacturers as we could. Then, after the exhibit floor closed, we dived into long edit sessions. Our game plan was simple: Cover NAB as much as possible, and edit throughout the day and into the evenings. We turned to Adobe...
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May 20, 2019, 2:06 pm
Polygon Disintegration Breaking apart polygons with X-Particles. Polygon Disintegration With the popularity of the Avengers Thanos ash effect, I decided to create a variant with X-Particles. It’s very similiar in movement, but focuses primarility on ripping the polygons of a mesh object apart which gives it a nice mix of blockiness, and fluid flow. Since...
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May 20, 2019, 6:18 am
When was the last time you went to a drive in movie? Admittedly, the pickings are pretty scarce these days. At last count there were only 559 drive-in screens at 317 locations remaining in the United States and even less in Canada and Australia. While many states have multiple outdoor venues to watch film, many...
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